Arc A580 vs Mobility Radeon X1800XT

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance rankingnot rated85
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data39.34
GPU code nameM58, R520DG2-512
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 March 2006 (18 years ago)10 October 2023 (less than a year ago)
Current priceno data$337

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores243072
Core clock speed8 MHz1700 MHz
Boost clock speed550 MHz2000 MHz
Number of transistorsno data21,700 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data175 Watt
Texture fill rateno data384.0

Form factor & compatibility

Information on Mobility Radeon X1800XT and Arc A580 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data2x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data16000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data512.0 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 2.0
HDMIno data+

API compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXGDDR312 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkanno data1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2006 10 October 2023
Chip lithography 90 nm 6 nm

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon X1800XT and Arc A580. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon X1800XT is a notebook card while Arc A580 is a desktop one.


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